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[Tripp Tibbetts <slowfoodguy@yahoo.com>]

Paul, do you have any issues with me embedding some of your vids on my blog 
site?  One of my next couple of posts will be about heating water with 
compost at our new "house," and I'd like to start with that one.
 
http://www.smallbatchgarden.blogspot.com/
 
Couple of questions: how many yards of material are you thinking it would 
take to do this?  How long does it take to "fire" initially?  I should know 
that about compost piles in general, but I'm a lazy cold composter, so I 
don't have much experience with building and firing larger piles.  And 
lastly, do you know of anyone who's done this type of thing on a main hot 
water domestic supply line?  Seems like if you heated your domestic hot water 
this way, switching back and forth between two piles, that you'd end up with 
massive amounts of compost within just a year.  Our new place in Georgia has 
plenty of heavy red clay and weeds to turn into rich, deep, living soil!
 
Thanks,
Tripp



The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
-Chinese proverb
 



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> Paul, do you have any issues with me embedding some of your vids on my blog 
> site?

I would like to encourage everyone to stick my videos in their blogs
and web pages.  This stuff is important to me, and I am keen to pass
the word as much as possible.  I like to think that someday "fast
food" would be all permaculture food.  So when I travel, I can pull
over and eat a hot meal that is well aligned with my values.

And if I do something interesting, other folks in the community will
see it as a good, sound thing instead of something crazy.

So, YES, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE put my videos in your web pages.

> how many yards of material are you thinking it would take to do this?

Let's see, a standard pickup truck bed holds a little more than one
yard I think.  And if you heap it, you can sometimes get in a yard and
a half.

I would say "two yards" - but it depends on what kind of ingredients you have.

> do you know of anyone who's done this type of thing on a main hot water 
> domestic supply line?

Jean Pain!

http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/1351_0/alternative-energy/jean-pain-method




On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Tripp Tibbetts <slowfoodguy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Paul, do you have any issues with me embedding some of your vids on my blog 
> site?  One of my next couple of posts will be about heating water with 
> compost at our new "house," and I'd like to start with that one.
>
> http://www.smallbatchgarden.blogspot.com/
>
> Couple of questions: how many yards of material are you thinking it would 
> take to do this?  How long does it take to "fire" initially?  I should know 
> that about compost piles in general, but I'm a lazy cold composter, so I 
> don't have much experience with building and firing larger piles.  And 
> lastly, do you know of anyone who's done this type of thing on a main hot 
> water domestic supply line?  Seems like if you heated your domestic hot 
> water this way, switching back and forth between two piles, that you'd end 
> up with massive amounts of compost within just a year.  Our new place in 
> Georgia has plenty of heavy red clay and weeds to turn into rich, deep, 
> living soil!
>
> Thanks,
> Tripp
>
>
>
> The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
> -Chinese proverb
>
>
>
>
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